Article
What about R.A. Fisher's statement of the "too good" data of J.G. Mendel's Pisum paper?
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Weiling F
Abstract excerpt
Mendel was accused by Fisher that his observed data, which corresponded to expectations, were too good to be true, and, further, that Mendel, growing only 10 plants per offspring, disregarded in his genotypical analysis the loss of recessives by assuming a ratio of 1:2 instead of 1.1126:1.8874. I...
Topics
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- History, 19th Century
- Plants